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The excellence of the Arabs
- Title
- The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb ; volume editor Michael Cooperson.
- Author
- Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2017]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxxiii, 304 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Library of Arabic literature
- Uniform Title
- Library of Arabic literature.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in Arabic and English; translated from the Arabic.
- Contents
- Book one: Arab preeminence -- Book two: The excellence of Arab learning -- Horse husbandry -- Stars -- Somatomancy -- Physiognomancy -- Augury, lithomancy, geomancy, and soothsaying -- Oratory -- Poetry -- Wisdom poetry -- Wisdom in the prose and rhyming aphorisms of the Arabs.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6292
- ISBN
- 9781479809578
- 1479809578
- LCCN
- 2016055378
- OCLC
- 961208087
- Author
- Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889?, author.
- Title
- The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb ; volume editor Michael Cooperson.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Library of Arabic literatureLibrary of Arabic literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Text in Arabic and English; translated from the Arabic.
- Added Author
- Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- editor.Webb, Peter, 1978- editor, translator.Savant, Sarah Bowen, translator.Cooperson, Michael, editor.Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā.Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim, 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6292